Nita Green
Australian lawyer and politician
Nita Louise Green (born 23 June 1983) is an Australian politician who was elected as a Senator for Queensland at the 2019 federal election. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
Early life
Green was born in Camperdown, New South Wales. She was raised by a single mother who worked as a nurse. Her mother was born in the United States and arrived in Australia at the age of nine. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong and Juris Doctor from the University of Canberra. While at university she worked in the retail and hospitality sectors.
Career
After being admitted as a solicitor in 2015, Green worked as an employment lawyer for the law firm Maurice Blackburn. In 2017, she was the Queensland field director for Australian Marriage Equality during the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey. She subsequently became an organiser for the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, and also worked as a staffer for Senator Murray Watt.
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